I “failed” a week ago but with all the success I had using the word fail is just wrong. I succeeded up until the start of this week!
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I’m all done guys. Challenge completed
Any of you still hanging in?
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I’m still doing my broken version of things. I haven’t weighed or tracked my food since mid-September. I also haven’t weighed myself except for two trips to the doctor recently.
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Still going here mate.
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I’ve managed this pretty well, because I like the stuff I’m doing. I faltered a little when I thought my goals were changing, but I’m still calling myself more or less successful throughout this.
I don’t know if I’m going to push myself to get lean for the transformation thing this year or not.
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Join me in the fatties club.
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Me three
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I stopped around the 10 of december, before going to holydays. I think that’s good enough considering I had no plans for the last 6 weeks. Right now I’m a fatty, but I have to do some bulking jan to march… Trying to do a minicut right now but it’s so hard and I have no money left lol
In case anyone is reading here and not the transformation thread, @ChickenLittle and I are going to play secret Santa workout program. If there’s more than just us two, @Frank_C is going to play matchmaker. Anyone else in?
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Saw that, looks like fun. Is there a time frame for when you need to do the program? I’m about to run a peak for squats so don’t want to change things up
I’d say maybe start by April, so you could do at least 8 weeks and wrap at the end of the transformation challenge? Just to at least put us all somewhat in the same timeframe so it’s a community feel, but not “disqualify” anyone who is currently doing something and having some success.
How does that sound?
That’s cool, I’m planning to max mid-late Feb. I’m in.
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Ok @Frank_C, I think it’s me, @loganator and @ChickenLittle (unless anyone else responds to this quick). Want to match us up real quick?
@ChickenLittle is ready to start her new program Monday.
I’ve got 4 weeks left on what I’m doing, so I’m good right at end of January.
@loganator will start mid-to-late February.
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@ChickenLittle picks for @loganator. He picks for you. You pick for her.
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@TrainForPain scrolled back in your log until March and didn’t see my recommendation in there so let me know if you’ve done it before. It fits the goals you listed in August:
But can also lead to pretty quick burnout which I think you mentioned in a post sometime in the summer. Anyway, I’ve only ever run 3 programs, 2 of them peaking programs by Candito so that just leaves one for me to put you through
Edit: had to creep farther and saw you started it last year but didn’t finish it. If you skip the assistance at the end it should take less than an hour to get through and help prevent the inevitable burnout halfway through the program. Kinda depends on how you go about setting up your first giant set
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You did some real research! I appreciate it!
I’ll put some actual thought into how to set up my giant sets and I’ll give it a whirl - thanks!
Ok @ChickenLittle! I tried to meet your goals and equipment, and took a look at your log to do something out of your norm (which appears to be mostly 5/3/1 or working up to maxes), but not so far out it’s dumb.
So the bonus is you have a lot of bars and don’t have to worry about sharing equipment with other people and you know all the code lifts very well. You are getting ready to do mass made simple with @dagill2 that has heavy complexes in it and you’ve got a huge work capacity from your real life. You want to be bigger, stronger and leaner (like all of us). You also, like me, have a short attention span and already have another program on the horizon, so we’ll keep this one brief.
So I’m going to recommend Thibaudeau’s 6 Weeks to Superhero.
I’ve done it a couple times, and I really like it when I’m somewhere I can make it work. I recommend two bars, same pattern, because the setup is easier. You could even do high-handle deadlift for your overload and axel deadlift for your strength, as an example. Just stick with the lifts for the duration, if you can.
When I did it, I did an extra day of back and biceps. It was all really low-stress work (like pullovers and machine curls for sets of 10). Alternatively, you could just warm-up with some pull-ups/ pull-aparts/ whatever you’re concerned about for your main days.
The only concern for you is that you already do a lot of activity; that’s hopefully mitigated by winter, but, if you’re not recovering, just drop to one movement pattern per day.
Let me know your thoughts! This was one of the more entertaining programs I did.
How do you make the links show up like the cool pictures?
I just do copy and paste and the site takes care of the rest.
Now I kinda feel worse I’m not even pulling off copy and paste correctly